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TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Bc it known that l, CHARLES C. JQHXSON, of Springfield, in the countyoi' Windsor, and State of Vermont, have invented a new and usefulimprovement in Clothes-Pins or PapenClasps; and do hereby declarethe-same to be fully described in the following specification, andrepresented in the accompanying drawings, oi' which- Figure l is a sideView.

Figure 2, a longitudinal section; and

Figure 3 a transverse section ot' a clothes-pin provided with myimprovement, the plane of section of g. 3 being taken through the eyelethinge to be described,

My invention is to be found in the device for connecting the twojaw-levers of the clothes-pin.

In the drawings, A and B denote the two jaw-levers, as provided in theusual manner with a spring, C, arranged between their longer arms, andfor the purpose of pressing them asunder, in order to close the shorterarms or jaws (t a upon a clothesline, `or object when introduced betweenthem. Instead of connecting the two arms by a hinge whose two halves orparts are made of wire, I make the hinge connection D of one piece ofplate metal bent in thc form and in the manner as exhibited in Figuresel, 5, and 6, of which figs. -l and 5 are side views and fig. G an endview of it, or it may be made of one piece of metal bent in form, asshown in Figures 7, 8, and 9, of which igures those marked 7 and 9 areend views, and iig. S is a side elevation of it. The hinge connection D,so constructed, I introduce into the two levers, A B', or" theclothes-pin, in manner as shown in fig. 1, and afterward upset or spreadout the smaller ends of the tubular parts l) c, as the end of an eyeletis upset or spread out in order to x the eyclot in place in an object.The two levers, as prepared for the reception of the hinge connection,are to be formed as shown in Figures l0 and 11, that is, one is to havea conical or tapering opening, d, made in it, and the other is to have asaw-kerf, c, and ahole, f, in case the connection to-be used is likethat shown in figs. 4, 5, and 6; but should it be like that shown infigs. 7, S, and 9, the opening in each of the levers is to be like theopening ct of tig. 10. The levers, o'r one of them, when they areconnected together, and while they are being moved relatively to oneanother, will turn on the tubular part or parts of the metallicconnection. This tubular eyelet connection is not only a very strongone, but operates to prevent the levers from swaying or turninglaterally out of their normal plane of motion, as they are apt to dowhen united by a wire 'hinge of the ordinary construction.

do not cla-im uniting the two levers by means of a hinge connection madeof wood and not tubular, and extended into sockets in the levers.

What I claim as my invention, is-

'lhe metallic eyelet hinge connection, made and applied to the twolevers of the clothes-pin, substantially as described;

CHARLES C. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

